#4: How making meaning of adversity helps build resilience

Insight – An important building block that makes resilience, is the propensity to make meaning of adversity. Research suggests, that resilient people do not see themselves as victims of circumstances, but devise constructs about their suffering to create some sort of meaning for themselves and for others.
Host: Vinod Wadhwani is an executive coach and facilitator. In his last role in the corporate world, he was a Partner at Deloitte. Vinod leverages over three decades of leadership experience in investment banking, management consulting and merchant navy to help corporate leaders in seeking new perspectives, while focusing on tangible benefits to them and their organization. In his professional career, Vinod had the privilege of working alongside some fantastic colleagues – subordinates and peers, crew members, fellow seamen, financial analysts, investment bankers, consultants, bosses and boards. And from them all he absorbed powerful lessons on leadership, humility, client centricity and making a difference. He has over 30+ years of experience in leadership roles in his corporate career and has advised several companies on mergers and acquisitions, equity funding, financial restructurings. In his current role as the Founder and Managing Partner of Life Acumen LLP, he gets his highs out of making a small difference in the lives of corporate executives by uniquely integrating their work and life dimensions through integrated leadership interventions, bespoke executive coaching and leadership analytics.
Podcast: Life Acumen at Work - In this podcast series he explores topics having to do with leadership, organization culture, work-life harmony and career transitions, among other things. The views, opinions and anecdotes; he shares in this podcast are primarily reflections from his coaching conversations with corporate leaders, the coaching agendas that evolve from these conversations and subject matter readings. If you wish to explore more, on some of the themes discussed in this episode, you could refer to, Alive, a book by Paul Read; Man’s Search for Meaning, a book by Viktor Frankl; Option B, a book by Sheryl Sandberg; Optimists, a book by Martin Seligman; Good to Great, a book by Jim Collins; Mindset – The New Psychology of Success, a book by Carol Dweck. Excerpts from Sheryl Sandberg’s commencement key note speech to the class of 2016 at the University of California, Berkeley.
Published: May 15, 2020.
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